Susan Isaacs Quotes

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

Susan Isaacs

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Day
  • Thought

• Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Always
  • Moment

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Animal
  • Rain

• My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• Venus favors the bold.

  

  Ovid
  • Bold
  • Favors
  • Venus

• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Music
  • Hand
  • Emotions

• I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Success
  • Contribution
  • Offended

• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Think
  • Way
  • Meet

• I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

  

  B. B. King
  • Trying
  • Professional
  • Popular

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Work
  • Past
  • Stop

• Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Look

• Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Will
  • Speed

• I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Enjoy

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Political
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

  

  Susan Isaacs
  • Doing
  • Passionate
  • Good Work